Quote: Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. Author: Ruth Benedict 1887-1948, American Anthropologist
Quote: Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after. Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers 1927-, American Psychologist, Television and Radio Personality
Quote: Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. Author: Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973, American Novelist
Quote: It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. Author: Kenneth Clarke British Chancellor of the Exchequer
Quote: Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Debt is the worst poverty. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. Author: James Grant American International Business Consultant
Quote: The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. Author: James Howell
Quote: A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back. Author: Lee Iacocca 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler
Quote: The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: When I was born I owed twelve dollars. Author: George S. Kaufman 1889-1961, American Playwright, Director
Quote: One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit. Author: Garrison Keillor 1942-, American Humorous Writer, Radio Performer
Quote: Money is a poor man's credit card. Author: Marshall Mcluhan 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist
Quote: In the midst of life we are in debt. Author: Ethel Watts Mumford 1878-1940, American Novelist, Humor Writer
Quote: Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. Author: George D. Prentice American Editor
Quote: To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit. Author: Matthew Prior 1664-1721, British Diplomat, Poet
Quote: Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt. Author: Proverb
Quote: Out of debt, out of danger. Author: Proverb
Quote: Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. Author: Dutch Proverb Sayings of Dutch Origin
Quote: Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. Author: Irish Proverb Sayings of Irish Origin
Quote: God often pays debts without money. Author: Irish Proverb Sayings of Irish Origin
Quote: Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone. Author: G. Randolf
Quote: You build on cost and you borrow on value. Author: Paul Reichmann Canadian Businessman
Quote: The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor
Quote: A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll. Author: Ivan Shaffer
Quote: He that dies pays all his debts. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Words pay no debts. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist
Quote: You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time. Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies
Quote: Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. Author: John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic
Quote: If you don't have some bad loans you are not in business. Author: Paul Volcker American Chairman, Federal Reserve System
Quote: The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. Author: Earl Wilson 1907-, American newspaper columnist
Quote: Nowadays people can be divided into three classes -- the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves Author: Earl Wilson 1907-, American newspaper columnist